> On 2. Mar 2021, at 21:32, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > LoL! > > It has become completely nuts. We have MBR, GPT, EFI UEFI and probably some I > don't yet know about. They may or may not be exactly the same depending upon > the persuasions of the OS or program. > > Having wasted a couple of days going down this rabbit hole, I plan to be more > cautious. Yeah, I know I can fix it, but I don't know how long it will take > and this was a pretty rude time sink. > > Now on to making AHCI work on the Z400. > > "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" - Admiral Farragut at the battle of > Mobile bay. > > Have Fun! > Reg Beware the big white whale:) rgds, toomas > > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 01:09:48 PM CST, Gary Mills > <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: >> In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >>> These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a >>> single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command within >>> format to see the slices. You can use the fdisk command within format >>> to see the FDISK partitions. >> >> They are GPT partitions, not Solaris slices within a legacy MBR fdisk >> partition. > > Sorry. I should not have replied. I've never used GPT disks, > although ZFS offers to use the whole disk, whatever that means. I > only know about FDISK partitions and Solaris slices. There was once > one type of partition, then there were two, and now there is three. > >> There may be nomenclature byg here: >> # zpool create -f -B -d weetest c4t0d0 >> # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 >> If you run fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0, you will see a single EFI partition, >> but fdisk is just reporting that its a GPT labeled disk. >> format -e /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 -> partition will allow to create GPT >> partitions, including the EFI GPT partition type only required if >> booting UEFI, though I find FreeBSD's gpart(8) easier for the OP's use >> case of multiple pools and filesystems on a single disk. > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
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